Food assistance programs are an integral component of the public assistance safety net for the working poor, but many families do not use these programs when eligible to do so. In this paper, we use linked administrative data from the Illinois Integrated Database (IDB) to examine the patterns of...

Using data from the NLSY97, we construct two measures of poverty using the official definition and The National Research Council (NRC) definition. We estimate the two poverty rates for 1996 for youths 12-16 as 17.9 (official) and 23.4 (NRC), and document the discrepancies between youths...

A variety of state and federal tax incentives have been used to subsidize gas electric hybrid vehicles. In this paper, I estimate the incidence of these tax incentives using microdata on sales of the Toyota Prius, in order to determine who benefits from these policies. I focus on three sharp...

Higher-order discrete dynamic systems arise naturally in many economic models in which the problem at hand requires an explicit treatment of dynamics involving lags of more than one period. In studying such models, one type of analysis that economists are often interested in is the assessment of...

This Article articulates and analyzes the possibility of what we call the unbundled executive. The unbundled executive is a plural executive regime in which discrete authority is taken from the President and given exclusively to a directly elected executive official. Imagine a directly elected...

Beginning with California's Serrano v. Priest in 1971, the constitutionality of school finance systems in U.S. states has been under attack for nearly 35 years. During this time, 37 states have had the their education funding systems challenged on constitutional grounds. In 25 of these states,...

These are draft chapters for "Cognition and Social Motivation", to be published by Routledge in late 2007. The book should go formally into press about January 1. Comments welcome. The chapters will be posted as they emerge from a final read-through, but with Chapter 9 posted early for use in...

Since most countries impose significant levels of taxes on the returns from investments, it is important to understand the nature of the burden that such taxation imposes upon investors. This paper derives and analyzes expressions for the tax-burden imposed on an investor in terms of the loss of...

A structural model of entry and taxation is presented to explain the changes in market structure resulting from the 1869 stamped paper tax reform act that abolished taxation on paper used for advertising and publishing news in the Netherlands. Data on when and where the newspapers existed and...

This paper: (i) reports an empirical regularity in the market shares of brands; (ii) presents a theoretical framework for understanding the observed regularity; (iii) adduces additional empirical consequences of the framework, which are some counterintuitive relationships among market shares of...